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The Classic Years (CD)

By: Nico (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Classic Years (CD) Album By Nico (Artist)
1   I'm Not Saying
2   Last Mile, The
3   I'll Be Your Mirror
4   Femme Fatale
5   All Tomorrow's Parties
6   Fairest Of The Seasons
7   These Days
8   Little Sister
9   Chelsea Girls
10   No One Is There
11   Ari's Song
12   Frozen Warnings
13   Nibelungen
14   Janitor Of Lunacy
15   Abschied
16   Afraid
17   Secret Side
18   You Forgot To Answer
19   End, The
 

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Title Note

Personnel: Nico (vocals, harmonium); David Sinclair Whitaker, Larry Fallon (arranger); John Cale (various instruments, acoustic & electric guitars, viola, piano, celeste, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, marimba, glockenspiel, xylophone, bass, percussion, triangles, cabasa, background vocals); Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison (guitar, background vocals); Eno (synthesizer); Maureen Tucker (percussion); Adam Miller, Vicki Wood, Annagh Wood (background vocals).

Producers: Andrew Loog Oldham, Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson, John Cale, Joe Boyd.

Compilation producer: Bill Levenson.

Engineers include Gary Kellgren, John Haeny, John Wood.

Includes liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham and Clinton Heylin.

The late Nico (nee Christa Paffgen) was the German model and Fellini bit player who added a touch of Euro glamour to the early Velvet Underground and went on to a startingly original solo career performing a neo-medieval plainsong strictly of her own devise. THE CLASSIC YEARS opens with a rare 1965 pre-Velvets single "I'm Not Saying" which proved that this heavy-voiced "chanteuse" could carry a folk-rock tune as well as any at the time. Likewise, her lilting vocals on Velvet favorites "Femme Fatale" and "I'll Be Your Mirror" account in part for the enduring pop appeal of the Andy Warhol-produced debut THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO.

1967's CHELSEA GIRL -- with contributions from Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Tim Hardin and Bob Dylan -- introduced Nico as a durable New York folk-rock songstress. But it was the sphinx-like THE MARBLE INDEX and DESERTSHORE -- both imaginatively arranged by fellow Velvets alumni John Cale -- that established Nico as an underground solo artist in her own right. Accompanying herself on harmonium with help from Cale's electric viola and keyboards, she carried forth like a 20th century Hildegard, drawing a simple ascending line in the sand of a timeless and unforgiving landscape.

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